Growing up with Nathaniel; Day426-Day471

20 April 2015

Now week 68!  My boy is growing up fast and furious!

Milestones from week 62 to week 67...

1. he starts to confuse-calling me as Papa, and ah Thiang as Mama and occasionally calling Nainai as Yehyeh and so-fro (don't know he does it on purpose anot)...
2. he can say more words like "ka" - car, fan, light (灯), book, 美美, 猫, scare, dirty, Yehyeh, pain, shoe...
3. he fell down from my parent's bed during one of the afternoon naps and bit his lower left lip - 7/3/2015...
4. he felt depressed, gave us that 放空的 look - 11&12/3/2015... (as we are currently busy with new house stuffs, almost neglected him for a straight couple of nights to meet up with the IDs and run errands... so for the two days in a row, he hasn't been calling me Mama but luckily we brought him out to celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary and won back his smiles and acknowledgement!)
5. he starts to walk more steps without support steadily - 12/3/2015... by now he can already walking non-stop at the hall, inspecting the whole house and walk in the malls with shoes - 16/3/2015...
6. he fell ill - vomited 3 times and seen SBCC doctor... apparently he caught some stomach virus and bill amounted to $169 and after medicine, he has been lao sai-ing the next few days and well recovered within a week - 19/3/2015...
7. he develops fear and will consistently pats his chest whenever he feels scare... ie: when a motorbike drives past, he will pats his chest and say "scare"... bus also scare... sigh  >_<"
8. he learns to take instructions after a few times... when I called out "come to Mama and hug me..." it takes awhile for him to register then think about it before coming over to hug me...
9. he manjas his Yehyeh when he wake up in the mornings, lie down side by side with Yehyeh or sometimes saw him hugging him from behind...
10. he was 'taught' to beat the object causing him pain, so when he knocked onto the cot... he will beat the cot or knocked on the floor, he will beat the floor and cry at the same time...
11. his foot now measures 13cm - 23/3/2015...
12. he has 12 teeth...
13. he now weighs 12.3KG - 4/4/2015...
14. he can read ABC and the rest of the letters are A to him... read to him and use his fingers to draw out the letters, then he will 'switch' using my finger to write the letter instead - 11/4/2015...
15. he calls any kids older than him 'jiejie' in regardless boy or girl... so just taught him the meaning of 'korkor' - 12/4/2015...
16. he holds (our) phones and pretend to walk and talk like an adult - in full conversation; meaning, he walk around and talk, then paused like listening to the caller then continued to talk then ended the conversation with 'bai~' - 16/4/2015...
17. he's more willing to give kisses (lips to lips), with him ahhhh his big mouth and wetting our lips then shy-away after each kisses - 18/4/2015...
18. he will fuss, cries and dash over when you get near to the pram in the mornings (moving it aside so that I can get my shoes from the shoe cabinet) and he will think you want to bring him out but realised that he's not going out - 16&20/4/2015...

#day426 - Hanging out with the Yeo's and my bubbly chubby boy!

 

 

#day440 - Weekend's wefie with the boys!

 

 

#day441 - Play date with cousin Livie! (picture courtesy from my SIL)

 

 

#day447 - Training in progress so that he can wave that 荧光耪 with style when I bring him to watch Jay Chou's last concert before he retired...  HAHA!

 

 

#day452 - Look Ma, no hands and walking with shoes on in the house!

 

 

#day455 - It's 外婆's birthday, but somebody's got present from Daddy!

 

 

#day456 - Inspired to be the next mat rock! #ikea

 

 

#day460 - Looking grouchy; bought a gate to prevent him from coming into the kitchen and now he will go close the gate and clap happily (like feeling accomplished with a mission impossible) when we left it open...

 

 

#day462, #day463 - Wearing shoes whenever we go out... now that he will go look for his shoes to tell you he want to go out!

 

 

#day463 - Fun time splashing at the pool today!  ah Thiang go buy new swim wear to hide his BIG stomach...

 

 

#day466 - FaceTime with the Grams!  When 外婆 says "saying", he will go pat his head... when Nainai says "headache", he will also pat his head...  -__-"

 

 

#day466 - It's been awhile since we had "us-fie" for a long time...

 

 

#day468 - Nathaniel 的四连拍，您喜欢哪一拍？

 

 

#day469 - The father and son moment! 你"傻痒"我， 我"傻痒"你！

 

 

#day470 - Us making trips to Ikea every now and then, almost 3 times a month so now he is making himself feel at home! #ikea

 

*ps: #day471 ends on 20 April 2015

It's our 10th Year Anniversary; 3rd Wedding Anniversary!

12 March 2015

Such a March-citing month!

First, we collected keys to our new home then this year marks our 10th year being-together and and and it's our 3rd wedding anniversary!  New chapter to our 1st decade and cheers to many decades to come!

Feeling guilty for neglecting the Son for the past two evenings - busy running errands, cleaning the new house and meeting up with the IDs for night discussions... and we think he seemed to be unhappy about it and has been giving us that "blank" look.  He didn't even once greet me Mama today!  :(  So, ah Thiang suggested bringing him and join us for our dinner.

Of course, I had to cancel my current reservation as they weren't baby-friendly in the first place.  Luckily Gyu Kaku wasn't crowded and I managed to book a table of 3 + 1 baby chair!  We invited MIL along for the celebration as well - also wanna thank her for taking care of Nat for the past nights lah.  Checked the bill of $230++ but it's OK, once a while lah plus the Wayu beef was way too goooood!

After dinner, we went to Ikea to check out the furniture, styles and the possible ways I can configure the compartments of my wardrobes and kitchen cabinets... left about 930pm and took bus home because there isn't any taxi coming our way plus there was a long Q of people with loads of furniture waiting for taxis still!

Upon reaching home, I gave the little guy a wipe-down and milk and he soon fell asleep on our bed within 10mins!  Thank you for making my night a little easier, especially on this special day!  #loveyouloads

Finally some smiles and we are ready to set off for dinner!

 

Son flipping the menu and realised that there's nothing on the menu he can eat and gave that stunned look!  But he quite like the salmon bimbimbap that I fed him and kept asking for mummum...

 

Family portrait - marks our little celebration with the Son!  #muacks

 

 

On the left, looked like shooting for a TVC... my Son likes plush toys!  ~_~"

 

 

Thank you for holding my hand and journeying with me these last 10 years.  Happy 3rd wedding anniversary, my Husband!